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Thing and I promise we will do
something that was the F.B.I.
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Agent in charge Jennifer Moore the twenty
eight year old suspect arrested Monday
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before police believe he was about to head
to National Harbor where there is often
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a steady flow of but Hester in traffic
heavy rains and Brazil are blamed for
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killing at least ten people and leaving
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a trail of destruction in Rio de Janeiro
and here in Washington Brown reported.
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Good morning Africa will come to liberate
Africa from the Voice of America James
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but in Washington today it's Wednesday April
tenth ensure some of the stories we're
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covering all the jury has
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a new ninety day interim
president. Are all testing place
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in the Algerian capital Algiers to protest
Tuesday's column in session declaring
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speaker Abdul Qadeer Ben Salam interim
president of the nation that's corresponding
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Edel Urania in Cairo presidential politics
he. Fears grow in Guinea could not
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create a president condé might
change the Constitution to run for
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a third time in London thinking I gather
today to remember victims of the one nine
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hundred ninety four genocide and Zimbabwe
appeals for over six hundred million
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dollars in aid for cycling
to die and drug me. To
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Zimbabwe following Tacloban and I
cannot. Say To our great call the band
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aid you've been repeatable
and you. Vandalized
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a spokesman for Zimbabwe opposition leader
Nelson Chamisa and anticipation builds
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as the new airport terminal nears completion
in Nigeria for those there is a more
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a coming up on DAYBREAK Africa.
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The head of all Geary of House of Parliament
Hill can tell Ben Salah became interim
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head of state on Tuesday to temporarily
replace former president Abdel Aziz
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beautifully who resigned
earlier this month as
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a lawyer any reports from Cairo
constitutional requires that the head of the
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parliament becomes interim
head of state in case of
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a presidential vacancy. Large
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protests took place in front of the main
post office in the Algerian capital
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Algiers and many other towns and cities
to protest Tuesday's parliament session
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declaring speaker of the Ben Sala
interim president of the nation for
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a period of ninety days Arab news channels
showed live video of Algerian security
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forces using water cannons and tear gas
to try and disperse protesters in Algiers
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you have to see that you are sending
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a man away she didn't want any engine and
interview President Ben Sala addressed
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Parliament after the decision to declare
the presidency vacant and to apply article
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one zero eight of the Constitution granting
him interim presidential powers for
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ninety days the Constitution also requires
that new presidential elections be
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organized during that ninety day period
Ben Sala told legislators that he was
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required by national duty to take
on the heavy burden of steering
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a transition that will give the Algerian
people the ability to exercise its
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sovereignty and Saleh will have limited
powers and may not run for president
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himself the Islamist head of Algeria
is Justice and Development Party. Told
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journalists that he does not believe the
people will accept and Salam as interim
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president Shabnam Mahadevan
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a shot if you had him as yet the new union.
Means he says the people have taken to
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the streets to get rid of all elements of
the beautifully courageous and that some
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parties are making efforts to do an end run
around the demands of the people solely
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by and shy nane the head of a major Islamist
bloc in parliament told all Hora T.V.
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That the people reject the decision to
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a. Point out though Carter been solid as
interim head of state and that legislators
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should have chosen someone else to
replace former President Bill to flee.
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He says that the current crisis is both
political and constitutional So the
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response must be
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a mixture of both since the people do not
accept been solid as president he claims
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the Parliament should choose someone else
to fill the post of interim head of state
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. A former member of Algeria's
constitutional council however
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disagrees. He says in
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Article one zero eight of the Constitution
is clear once parliament declares the
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position of president to be vacant
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a speaker of the upper chamber automatically
becomes interim head of state Edward
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Uranian for V.O.A.
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News Cairo. Zimbabwe's government says
it would need to post six hundred thirty
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million dollars from local and international
Dillon us to help with the food
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imports following cycling and severe drought
to cycling killed about three hundred
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forty four people in Mozambique Malawi
and Zimbabwe information minister Monica
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Vanga told journalists on Tuesday in
Harare that both three hundred million of
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these six hundred and thirty million
dollars will go to all food aid. Is
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a spokesman for the bubble opposition leader
Nelson Chamisa he says Zimbabwe needs
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humanitarian assistance following cycle
but as such a it should be a minister
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a reputable international non-governmental
organization I think the need for
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assistance to Zimbabwe following cycling
and I cannot be overstated They certainly
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a growing need for infrastructure
see a provide a basis for
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a decent living. For the people I think the
numbers are fairly convective and it's
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basically that the government doesn't
have a proper department that can do
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a lot proper its analysis now if they had
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a great concept given what this government
has been doing with aid that's been
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coming through where they've been giving
it on their party line bases and some of
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it has actually been embezzled by
sending a party official that to such
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a MUST be given internationally
the pitcher bill and G.E.O.S.
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In order to make show that assistance gets
down to those who actually do need it
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rather than the powerful than the previous
party members does the opposition have
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evidence of talk to officials
misuse the money Oh yes it has been
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a lot of public outcry in the
country with footage of videos of
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a assistance being driven into that private
homes of millions does Oso being loaded
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on to sell a party that go to
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a set of being given to individuals as
being that if this is where aid was being
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given to people who did not come
from the areas affected so it's
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a double edged sword to give
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a directive of this government not to Mount
Pleasant I was I think should be given
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to a few to build international
organizations that have
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a tendency of making sure that the reasonable
fraction of fate I think about to set
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off aid that's given does get to those in
need that is out of the air for around
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about
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a quarter of it gets to those who need it
and even then it's not sufficient to some
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of it gets embezzled along the way part of
the six hundred million dollars that the
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government is looking for is to go to
most drought I was reading that the
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government has taken steps to pay
farmers increase the price for me
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this is no help the farmers will affect
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a bad drought but it's not going to do that
because what do you have in the Mabo to
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stop wearing the high point of flesh
and mold what they're simply doing by
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increasing the prices
banqueting the prices for
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a little the pipeline inflation level
at the. Some time you are having
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a crisis of basic food
stop spinning created for
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a society that has no money if
people are already living well below
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a dollar bill the majority A little people
are expected to the absorb whatever
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price increases are there
and the government has
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a low capacity to subsidize
these private so as
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a matter of fact it's very crazy the sort
of mathematical formula discovered is
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working it's not going to work if they
increase the prices the customers can afford
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it they just they were going to die of
hunger and that the family thankfully is not
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going to get anything because of the low
cost to actually buy those products
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because they are to reach So it's
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a catch twenty twenty five there is no
way out for this government until they
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realize that their main crisis is political
and economic they've got to resolve the
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social political and economic problems
of this country into the resolving the
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disputed election but some long ago become
president in August two thousand and
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eighty. And those disputes manful them
bubble opposition leader Nelson Chamisa he
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spoke with me in from the capital Harare
today is Wednesday at fourteenth and
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you're listening to daybreak Africa and
the Voice of America I'm James Bond in
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Washington they break Africa time forty
minutes past the hour opposition leaders in
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Guinea can agree and concerns the
president they will try to change the
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Constitution in order to run for
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a third turn after his current mandate
expires in twenty twenty he memorised watch
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Africa division researcher Jim Warmington
who has just returned from Guinea talks
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to wreckage track about the political
concerns in the country. There's been
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a lot of rumor and a lot
of fear among gives
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a position that condé will try to amend
the Constitution to be able to run for
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a third term and so this period that
we're in now I think it's is really
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a kind of the calm before the storm before
condé either announces his detention
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Open need to do that which will lead to
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a lot of street protests and likely
violence in Guinea or office
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a different character cation on
his future and so we're really in
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a holding pattern now seeing what can base
decision will be although as Maggie is
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supposed to be up in twenty twenty there's
no date for presidential elections next
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year at this point can know exactly and
in fact the National Assembly so get its
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parliament their mandate also ended or has
ended in in January and even in the case
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of those elections with with parliamentary
representatives now actually sitting
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beyond the end of their official mandate
even in that case we have no data
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politically to elections either and so
again it's this kind of weird limbo period
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where. I think everything is is really
dependent on what Condi decides to do next
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for his own future and what are the reasons
they're giving for the lays there the
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legislative elections Guinea has
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a long history of negotiation disagreement
between the opposition of the government
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as to how the modalities for the organization
of elections ranging from everything
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to what the electoral lists looks like
whether the electoral list of voters has
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been updated and and so who reflects the
most current demography of Guinea all the
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way through to the dates of the elections
and other aspects of how they're
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organized so I think that
it's often been used as a as
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a pretext by the government today elections
there's thoughts that people may even
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try to roll their legislative elections
into the presidential some twenty twenty
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but a Yes really it's just
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a question of my Been waiting and seeing
what the government does next and their
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biggest opponent who they are this moment
would be said oh yeah well I would assume
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and. If that is correct what are there
is there have been tensions between the
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community especially as Jallow is their
candidate you know what is that where the
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thir violence and oppression would be coming
from as well the security forces also
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are known to use excess environs Yeah I
mean undoubtedly there are strong as the
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tensions in Guinea
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a moment I think that on the other
hand it's important to say that also
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a lot of the violence that's been happening
is is purely political and not not
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always motivated by as they see it the
pattern that we've unfortunately seen in
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Guinea for many years now is that there are
often street protests organized by the
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opposition and they would say that's
because there are the kinds of legitimate
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institutions for example courts that
can adjudicate electoral disputes and
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therefore they have to be to do good on
the streets and then when that happens
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those protests are often not authorized
by the government and therefore the
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government seeks to break them up and
in breaking up the protests there's an
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inevitable confrontation between many
many young men from the opposition and
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security forces with some violence used
from both sides there are at least twelve
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people shot dead in process and twenty
eighteen. If Jim Want to turn Human Rights
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Watch researcher in the Africa division she
was speaking to reconstruct from Boston
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Massachusetts family in President Joyce
Banda says if there is an unknown who
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should be arrested for corruption it is
incumbent president Peter Erica she was
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reacting to remarks made Sunday
by President Erika during
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a campaign event that Mrs Banda could still
be arrested for the thirty two million
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dollars so-called cash Gates condo now
rocked our president say in twenty thirty
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Malawians will vote in presidential elections
on May twenty first this year axiom
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collaterally national publisher distract
trail of bandits opposition People's Party
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says President Mubarak does better because
former President Bandar rebuffed his
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request to form an alliance ahead of the
May twenty first presidential election
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well the cabinet press conference which was
held some three days ago. Talking about
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the car States saying that there were. So
responding to that saying that she was
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not afraid of intimidation she was going
to be different because she didn't have
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very well when the country
was exposed. She invited.
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Seventy two people added to that
but if. You look. At the time she
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was upside in America and reported
to this country that is there any.
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Coarsening when the former president said
that the police must first arrest the
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current president for what she call
organized corruption where is the organized
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corruption almost every department.
Was distorted and it was
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reported in the media and. Has
been taken that have about fifty
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people. And. Which people. Storen not
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a natural has taken.
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On and that's what she was talking about
President Terry also said that the former
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president while she was abroad took steps
to discredit President Mubarak and his
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government is. The lack of seriousness in.
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Government buildings. There's
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a lot of planning the government. Never
taken an initiative pretty risky to get
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maybe to put the record straight.
But not agree that's been
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underfunded just because they are
afraid to expose people who are.
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Really government money in SA going to vote
from the first to what degree does what
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is going on now have to
do with politics. Of say.
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Forty six days. That.
You might be aware that
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contesting but after making an.
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Unsupported. Party and now.
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You want to support the. Action is
the national publisher secretary of
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President Joyce Banda People's Party
speaking with me from the Malawian capital
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a long way diplomats representatives of
the Kenyan government and Broome London's
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living on Tuesday mock today international
day of reflection on the one nine
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hundred ninety four Rwanda genocide at the
United Nations has. Quarters in Nairobi
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more details from the Kenyan capital I
kissed eight hundred thousand people lost
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their lives during rundowns nine hundred
ninety four genocide sparked by
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differences between the country's two main
ethnic groups the two days and the Hutus
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run as envoy to Kenya
Richard Meserve is that
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a Tuesday say that round and genocide
happened because of historical injustices
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measured out agonists one community put in
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a side against didn't come out of
the blue but it was the outcome of
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a long history of discrimination
and deliberate deny over rights of
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a section of one society this is communication
and dehumanizing for was done in
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order to provide justification for the
elimination of the government of the time
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organized and persuaded
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a large section of London's to carry out
muscular neighbors The result was that
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over
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a million to see what killed myself there
said the aim of the commemoration is to
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have the incidents I think in the
mind so front is so that to generate
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a unit take buses that are stressed the
importance of fighting against it ethnic
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and divisive ideologies noting that the
churches of these ideologies ought to be
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called out withstanding in remembrance of
murdered brutally in one of the darkest
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times in human history every year
starting from the seventh of April
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a week is set aside to remember in Kenya
I wonder we call it we will come which
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essentially means to remember
friendship a president or a man or
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a macro and last week appointed
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a commission to investigate claims that
France supported the Hutto mass murder as
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of two says Brown in Tory Ireland is living
in Kenya said his father the blanks who
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are my dad during the one hundred day
killing spree. That left hundreds of
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thousands dead and millions displaced
according to. A rundown has made
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significant strides since one thousand
nine hundred four but that it will take
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a long while for the country to completely
get freed of its make ideologies the
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elimination of requirements to indicate
ethnic identities and identity cards and
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registration of national examinations I
just some of the measures that have been
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put in place to have created equal opportunities
for. Reporting for the DAYBREAK of
00:19:58
Flicka and Moreno jumble in a way Kenya
this July Liberia will integrate a new U.S.
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Fifty million dollar terminal Roberson
International Airport it is the first modern
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addition since the United States on May
first build the international airport
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during the Second World War as Moses guzzle
reports expectations are high about the
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potential benefits of the new terminal
Liberia begun constructing the new passenger
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terminal at the international airport in
twenty seventeen now always glittering in
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nears completion the two level building
includes passenger arrive when the batch of
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facilities advance security immigration
system is office space is security
00:20:39
screening baggage had me in areas I'm
an artist so for the first time the new
00:20:45
terminal who's to jet will walk in bridges
one eight hundred ten minute gate with
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aircraft making it possible for passengers
to enter and exit the aircraft I call
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him to be sure I can managing director
of the Liberia airport authority the new
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terminal shows the possibilities of
post-war Liberia the terminal was destroyed
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we've gone almost two decades now and this
is the first morning term you know that
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has been built this time it is showing
00:21:13
a positive face for Liberia knowing the
good things can happen and knowing that we
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are living what is happening out there and
we want to bring good things back home.
00:21:23
Also said the new term you know we're
happy improve the standing of the airport
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while at the same time providing job
opportunities from in Liberia is one of the
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benefits is job creation you have moved
job opportunities for people especially
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from in and around the community here
clearly revealed that more negotiate the
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routes to Liberia because they believe the
new term you know host of passengers the
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new airport is costing the Liberian government
fifty million that is fifty dollars
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plus an additional tech
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a million not just fifty dollars used in
twenty sixteen to rehabilitate the airport
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runway in new administrative complaint
in new. Construction either
00:22:05
groundbreaking of the cost
structure of Recently
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a joint venture company
Global or just a service is
00:22:10
a national interview this is that is
carried out the project general manager
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explained the importance of the card was
sent to the new rabbits International
00:22:20
Airport establishing
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a more oh yeah you know.
And it's very good very.
00:22:29
Very barrios and very Liberia's I excited
about the opportunities that will be
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created from the new passenger tenure
if the. Flights come into this country.
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Is that we move far in business is
following the laws into action with.
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Our business our to the opening of the new
terminal or have to boys our business
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because most of our board off before
terminal is now up to did the rabbit
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International Airport has never
been and I tried to hop on
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a minute traveling to one of
West Africa's air traffic center
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a devastating forty years have
00:23:12
a war and post war economic challenges
made matters difficult for the airport to
00:23:16
make any prove me in the
aviation industry but with
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a new sophisticated passenger
tending to a suitable. One way and
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a better kind of facility
Liberia's hope. In
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a new beginning for the Liberia if you
wish an industry. A news Monrovia
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briefly before we leave you
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a summary of Africa news the US Britain
and Norway demanded Tuesday the Sudanese
00:23:39
authorities deliver
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a credible plan for political transition
as deadly deadly demonstrations seeking
00:23:45
the ouster of President
Bashir continue for
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a fourth day on Tuesday activist behind
the protest said at least thirteen people
00:23:54
were killed in the capital hard to bring
in the death toll to twenty one since the
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weekend including five soldiers police
used tear gas rubber bullets and files to
00:24:05
disperse the protesters and the
United Nations said Tuesday that
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a national conference for Libya scheduled
for Sunday to bring warring parties
00:24:14
together is unlikely to go and that is it
for this Wednesday April tenth edition of
00:24:20
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Today is Wednesday April tenth and this is
veal ways international edition and I'm
00:25:46
Laurie London in Washington coming up on
precedent in elections that could change
00:25:50
for Israel are too close
to call. That results
00:25:57
we have to wait. For the
coming days in this area.
00:26:04
Next government. Army intervenes in Sudan's
protests morning it'll prevent chaos
00:26:10
also had advocates are pushing to
stop the Trump administration from
00:26:14
a no from overturning
00:26:15
a rule that allows aggressive wildlife Ponce
it's on today's international edition
00:26:20
. Exit polls from Israel's contested
election show the former chief of staff
00:26:27
Benny Gantz has won at least as many
seats as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
00:26:31
Netanyahu the question now
is whether God can form
00:26:35
a governing coalition Linda
Gradstein reports from V.O.A.
00:26:39
From Jerusalem. The big drama blue and
00:26:46
white is the largest party and it's
impossible to tell who will be the next prime
00:26:50
minister said the anchor on Channel thirteen
News giving challenger Benny Gantz his
00:26:56
blue and white party thirty seven seats
to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
00:27:00
Netanyahu is thirty four out of
00:27:03
a total of one hundred twenty seats other
exit polls have gone to head by one seat
00:27:08
or tied with Netanyahu these are only exit
polls and the results could change once
00:27:13
all the votes especially those of Israeli
soldiers are counted but if this election
00:27:19
was
00:27:19
a referendum on the ten yahoo who has served
for thirteen consecutive years it showed
00:27:24
the public is fed up and in ten Yahoo faces
several allegations of corruption and
00:27:30
could be indicted within the year.
Down supporters celebre. It at party
00:27:35
headquarters in Tel Aviv but their excitement
may have been premature even God says
00:27:41
most favorable polls show will be
easier for new ten Yahoo to form
00:27:45
a governing coalition in a tweet
the prime minister declared
00:27:49
a clear victory for the right wing bloc
and said he will start assembling one the
00:27:54
exit polls showed that several smaller
parties including one of the Arab parties
00:27:59
did not pass the minimum threshold once all
the votes are counted Israeli president
00:28:04
revenge Rivlin will consult with all the
party leaders and then ask either grants
00:28:09
or Natanya who to try to form
00:28:11
a governing coalition in the past the
head of the largest party has always been
00:28:16
given the first chance to form a
government Linda Gradstein for V.O.A.
00:28:20
News Jerusalem. Here's
some of the stories we are
00:28:27
following at V.O.A.
00:28:28
News dot com More than one hundred thousand
migrants have been encountered out the
00:28:33
U.S. Southern border in March the U.S.
00:28:36
Aid chief says Congo Ebola Congo's Ebola
outbreak is far from contained the
00:28:42
Algerian interim president promises free
elections and Iran labels the US The real
00:28:48
leader of world terrorism find expanded
coverage of these stories and. News dot com
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and on our V.O.A.
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Mobile app this is
international edition. Aid
00:29:08
agencies are urging rival militias in
Libya to take all possible measures to
00:29:13
protect civilians as fighting for control
of the capital city Tripoli ask away it
00:29:19
sounds casualties mounts Lisa
shrine reports for V.O.A.
00:29:23
From Geneva in recent days health facilities
near Tripoli have reported forty seven
00:29:29
people killed and one hundred eighty one
wounded the World Health Organization says
00:29:34
. As nine civilians including two doctors
are among the dead it says one doctor
00:29:40
reportedly was killed while working as
part of a Field Ambulance servants W.H.O.
00:29:46
a Spokesman Tarik Zorra that says the
agency has documented dozens of attacks
00:29:52
against hells workers and facilities that
killed and injured thirty two health
00:29:57
workers and patients since two thousand
and eighteen he says targeting them is
00:30:02
against international humanitarian law to
respond to this spike in violence to the
00:30:08
health sector pre-print position supplies
us in order to respond quickly and
00:30:14
effectively emergency medical supplies
and trauma kits were prepositioning for
00:30:19
strategic sites the supplies are sufficient
to treat up to two hundred ten thousand
00:30:24
individuals for free months and to enable
to treatment of up to nine hundred
00:30:27
injuries he says Arvid says the W.H.O.
00:30:31
Fears
00:30:31
a prolonged conflict will drain the limited
available medical supplies on hand and
00:30:37
that a problem he notes is that the W.H.O.
00:30:40
Is short of cash he says the agency may
not be able to meet the medical needs of
00:30:45
the population if donors do not contribute
more generously to its forty three and
00:30:50
one half million dollar
appeal Meanwhile U.N.
00:30:54
High Commissioner for Human Rights Michel
botulin it is appealing to all parties to
00:30:59
the conflict to abide by their obligations
under international law her spokeswoman
00:31:05
Rabiner Shamdasani says the warring parties
must take all possible measures to
00:31:11
protect civilians and civilian infrastructure
including airports schools hospitals
00:31:17
and prisons commission
00:31:19
a stresses that the principles of distinction
proportionality and precaution must
00:31:24
at all times be fully respected and tension
in the targeting civilians or civilian
00:31:30
objects as well as indiscriminate attacks
may amount to war crime. Shamdasani says
00:31:37
the high commissioner is particularly
concerned about the welfare of thousands of
00:31:42
refugees of migrants in detention centers
near the combat zone in Tripoli she says
00:31:48
they are extremely vulnerable High Commissioner
Bagchi let urges authorities not to
00:31:53
abandon them the United Nations Monday
issued an urgent appeal for two hour truce
00:32:00
in the suburbs of Tripoli to evacuate
civilians Lisa shrine for V.O.A.
00:32:05
News Geneva a months of anti-government
protests in Sudan reached
00:32:10
a new stage over the weekend when
tens of thousands of people held
00:32:14
a sit in at army headquarters as the
protesters called for President Omar al Bashir
00:32:19
to step down troops on expectedly confronted
government security forces who were
00:32:24
trying to break up the protest at least
six people were killed in the Army is now
00:32:28
warning it could step in again. Mohi
Dean reports for me away from Khartoum
00:32:35
twenty three year also some on her family
have been marching against the government
00:32:40
of Brazil and almost all this year since
Brutus began in December. She says
00:32:47
he's going to prove this with the whole
family they won't come back until the
00:32:51
region falls but what is started
is a more sad that they turn to
00:32:54
a seething ad military headquarters
thousands refused to go back home putting
00:33:02
these protesters to fuse to stop
protesting kill al Bashir or steps down.
00:33:09
They said they have been protesting for
four months December lines they have only
00:33:14
one demand the region must fall down
they won't go backward won't compromise
00:33:19
everyone will sit in front of military
headquarters until the region totally falls
00:33:24
down President Bashir on Friday night had
called for dialogue with these opponents
00:33:29
elections Ses Sudan's government spokesman
Husain is my email are the only possible
00:33:34
. Before change. Hasn't say that
the door to dialogue will be
00:33:41
closed the government's mind will still
be open to deal with anything in the
00:33:45
political arena it hands will be open for
anyone even those who refuse dialogue who
00:33:52
raise their demand to bring down the
government instead what on Saturday the
00:33:56
anniversary of nine hundred eighty five
coupe in Sudan the poet is Kelly as
00:34:01
security forces moved in to clear protests
is so these troops instead they in
00:34:05
confronting and clashing with security
personnel loud sounds of gunfire we're
00:34:09
hearing there on the military
headquarters so that's indeed
00:34:12
a minister said Monday that at least six
people were killed in that we can put this
00:34:17
in Khartoum and two thousand five hundred
others arrested analysts say the put is
00:34:22
over food and fuel shortages have is no
walled into why this raid anger at all
00:34:27
aspects of government. This
is the political analyst. He
00:34:34
said The street protests all result
of accumulations lasting for
00:34:37
a long time the inaccessible powers
structure and defensive approach of the
00:34:42
government eventually it resulted in
failure. Late on Mondays to dance defense
00:34:48
minister issued
00:34:49
a statement through state media it said the
military understands the reason for the
00:34:53
recent demonstrations but will not allow
the country to fall into CA is no bomb he
00:34:59
Dean for viewing use cult US Attorney
General William Barr on Tuesday declined to
00:35:05
discuss with lawmakers any specifics of
Special Counsel Robert Muller's report on
00:35:10
the Russian investigators but said he
expects to issue every day acted version of
00:35:14
the document within
00:35:15
a week testifying on Capitol Hill
for the first time since issuing
00:35:19
a summary of the special counsel's
findings Barr faced intense criticism from
00:35:23
Democrats who suggested the attorney general
had acted to shield President Donald
00:35:28
Trump from the full weight of the probes
conclusions House Appropriations Committee
00:35:33
chairperson need allowing so. Bar summary
is more suspicious than impressive and
00:35:38
urged him to bring transparency to this
process as soon as possible late last month
00:35:43
two days after receiving Muller's report
Barr advised lawmakers that the special
00:35:48
counsel had not uncovered collusion between
the Trump campaign and Russia to sway
00:35:52
the twenty six thousand election but was
neutral on whether the president had
00:35:56
obstructed American justice news reports
have said that some members of Miller's
00:36:00
team alleged bar summary glossed over
damaging information about Trump Democrats
00:36:07
and both houses of Congress have demanded
access to the complete report and idea
00:36:12
that bar has so far appeared to dismiss
Joining us to talk more about this is
00:36:16
former federal prosecutor
Kenneth McCallion
00:36:18
a constitutional law expert who worked on
Trump Russia corruption cases what do you
00:36:23
make of all this it's really
unfortunate. Or have.
00:36:30
Parts gone out. Summarized in page the
letter what he believes are the finding
00:36:37
of the record but there are many including
me who highly suspect that he put
00:36:43
a tremendous amount of political spin in
his four page letter we've never seen them
00:36:48
our report I think has
00:36:50
a lot of basis for believing our report
itself he tells them that Exter and
00:36:57
the analysis by all are was designed to
have the Congress or the public to form
00:37:03
their own opinions particularly on the issue
of obstruction of justice on the issue
00:37:07
of of collusion we haven't seen them over
report but according to the bar Well it
00:37:12
took an extremely restricted view of
what collusion consists of and really
00:37:19
the conclusion or the definition of collusion
really really drove their conclusion
00:37:25
there was collusion specifically what I
in the bars letter he says clues in was
00:37:32
nominally. Really. Any activity
aiding and abetting by Trump
00:37:39
campaign Clinton with the with the Russian
hackers with the agency that was doing
00:37:45
the deal in the examination that was
really never part of the allegations it's
00:37:51
never been alleged that term campaign
actively worked with the hackers the issue
00:37:57
was really did Tron campaign solicit from
the Russians the benefit of that hacking
00:38:04
mainly the. Hacked e-mails on Hillary
Clinton so we haven't seen the mole or Igor
00:38:10
yet but it seems that Muller by taking up
certainly was the issue of what collusion
00:38:17
consisted of ignore
00:38:19
a lot of the critical evidence of the
interaction between the Trentino the Russians
00:38:25
we don't really know what he looked at or
what he found that may have been maybe
00:38:29
just below the legal level of criminality
or we don't know because we haven't seen
00:38:35
it and apparently the law does provide
for certain congressional committees
00:38:39
particularly the House Intelligence
Committee to be able to see the on redacted
00:38:44
report apparently they get classified
information all the time so my understanding
00:38:48
is this is the first sort of special counsel
report that hasn't been fully released
00:38:51
to Congress in this type of situation yes
certainly the Department of Justice bar
00:38:57
has has all kinds of based on precedent
there's all kinds of ways that any
00:39:02
confidential information can be restricted
it could be released to the committee
00:39:08
members were certain restrictions on public
dissemination but you're right it's an
00:39:13
aggression Committee have
00:39:14
a right to see the full report just as far
as read the full report because under
00:39:20
article one they have a responsibility
of oversight in the geisha and they have
00:39:26
a right to the full report what about the
grand jury issues he says they will not
00:39:31
get he will not release grand jury testimony
by. Standing From everything I've
00:39:36
heard is that it wouldn't take much for him
to get for the attorney general to get
00:39:40
a judge to actually release them to
Congress not necessarily the public but at
00:39:44
least Congress so that they can
investigate and you know there's
00:39:47
a lot of talk about how people think maybe
Mahler was really intending for Congress
00:39:51
to to make
00:39:52
a decision about obstruction anyway so
would it make sense for for Congress to be
00:39:57
able to get their hands on the grand jury
testimony Oh absolutely bar well over
00:40:02
twenty four hours create
get authorization from
00:40:05
a federal judge really that congressional
committee on public need for and it's
00:40:11
a wing process. And public need. At least
00:40:18
for a valuation And then
surely without necessarily
00:40:23
a really public but at least elected
representatives in Congress with full
00:40:28
opportunity to review the entirety of the
court it would be unfortunate that they
00:40:34
would have the first impeachment proceedings
in order to keep it to get the full
00:40:39
military court right if necessary. To
former federal prosecutor Kenneth Macallan
00:40:46
a constitutional law expert who worked on
Trump Russia corruption cases the live
00:40:51
stream video of the Christ Church New
Zealand mosque shooting last month
00:40:55
highlighted social media companies continuing
struggle to police extremist content
00:41:00
on their platforms Facebook and
Google representatives told U.S.
00:41:05
Lawmakers Tuesday the effort to balance
free speech with moderation of white
00:41:09
supremacist content is ongoing via ways
Congressional Correspondent Catherine
00:41:15
Jepson has more from Capitol
Hill. A church synagogue and
00:41:21
a mosque attacks inspired by with the promise
is the ideology fostered. In the age
00:41:28
of instant communication with worldwide
reach white nationalist groups target
00:41:32
communities of color and religious minorities
you see. JLE media platforms since
00:41:36
two thousand and seven right wing extremist
attacks have taken place across the
00:41:41
nation but the problem is global and the
live stream of the New Zealand shooting
00:41:46
posed
00:41:47
a massive challenge actually proving one
point two million and find three hundred
00:41:51
thousand additional uploads about video
within the first twenty four hours and that
00:41:55
are very forceful in swift response the
decision to remove videos of mass shootings
00:42:00
is clearcut policing the free speech of
more than two billion people is far more
00:42:06
complex hate speech because it often rely
as unspoken rather than visual cues is
00:42:12
sometimes harder to detect than some forms
of branding terrorist propaganda it's
00:42:16
intensely context Pacific and it can be
contentious as there is often disagreement
00:42:21
on what could be considered political
speech. On the opposite end over aggressive
00:42:26
enforcement can also inadvertently file
into boys that are using the platform to
00:42:30
make them heard make themselves heard
on these important news is social media
00:42:33
companies are protected by law from liability
for content posted on their platforms
00:42:39
this is
00:42:39
a piece of legislation that really allows
the Internet as we understand it to exist
00:42:43
and fiddling with it on the edges could I
think have really bad implications for
00:42:49
customers who enjoy using these services
because what will happen is if they amend
00:42:54
legislation to actually make Facebook Twitter
You Tube liable for extremist content
00:42:59
say you run the risk of. Overreaction
and Facebook and Twitter will be
00:43:06
very they'll both shut down tons and tons
and tons of channels and content white
00:43:10
supremacy has never been allowed on Facebook
but recently the company expanded the
00:43:14
scope of the ban redirecting users to
00:43:17
a nonprofit that helps people leave hate
groups extend their policy to include
00:43:21
a ban on all praise support and
representation of white nationalism and white
00:43:26
separatism you see these are ya Jesus being
extra quickly linked to supremacy with
00:43:32
intensive violence more generally president.
Rhetoric about immigrants and his
00:43:36
reaction in the aftermath of the deadly two
thousand and seventeen Charlottesville
00:43:40
rally encourages hate speech they Democrats
the president denies this and the
00:43:45
danger of white supremacy that was acknowledged
just last week by the nation's top
00:43:51
law enforcement official says that it's
00:43:53
a persistent provision of threat is
just illustrates part of the problem
00:43:58
a problem so immediate that racist content
flooding the youtube live stream of the
00:44:03
hearing shot the comments section down
great Catherine just said it's below News
00:44:09
Capitol Hill and you're listening to
international edition on the way.
00:44:19
Thanks in
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a lobby ready to beat the African people
that the Beatles call the translation it's
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called all languages and each of the.
Places we're going to keep this thing and I
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just asked to get the fricken beat on the
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continues the U.S.
00:45:25
Department of Interior
is working to finalize
00:45:28
a rule that would dismantle Obama era
protections that prohibit killing mother
00:45:32
bears on their cubs at the den and other
high. Doing methods on the National Park
00:45:37
Service preserve lands in Alaska that are
deemed excessively cruel in the light of
00:45:43
the upcoming Trump administration actions
the Humane Society of the United States
00:45:47
is releasing video footage of a father and
son caught on camera illegally killing
00:45:52
a hibernating mother blackberrying her two
comes the organization says it released
00:45:56
the video to show what they call cruelty
involved in an action that could soon be
00:46:02
permitted on National Preserve lands in
Alaska Joining us to discuss Wendy keep
00:46:07
over native carnivore protection manager
with the Humane Society's Wildlife
00:46:11
Department first off can you just give us
00:46:13
a little background on this law or roll
it around nine hundred ninety the Alaska
00:46:19
legislature passed
00:46:21
a law it would privilege hunter over all
other uses for wildlife on lands in
00:46:28
Alaska and the Alaska Department of Fish
and Game and its commission started to
00:46:34
push these laws onto federal public
lands in Alaska including on
00:46:41
seventy six million acres of National
Wildlife Refuge lands and over twenty million
00:46:46
acres of National Park Service lands
and preserves and so during the Obama
00:46:51
administration first the
Park Service issued
00:46:54
a rule to protect against extreme an
egregious hunting practices on national
00:46:59
preserves in Alaska and the rule ban
things like killing you know wolves and
00:47:04
coyote's den sites in the early summer when
you know the whole family is there kind
00:47:09
of raising and provisioning for their pups
and they're extremely vulnerable using
00:47:14
bait to attract brown bears and killing
the using artificial light to kill black
00:47:19
bears and their mothers while their heart
hibernating in the den and shooting
00:47:22
vulnerable swimming elves and things like
that my understanding is though that when
00:47:27
Obama took office he changed some of that
in two thousand and fifteen the National
00:47:32
Park Service issued
00:47:33
a rule for land. National preserved in
Alaska and then in two thousand and sixteen
00:47:38
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued
00:47:40
a rule for National Wildlife Refuge in
Alaska and what these rules did was banned
00:47:45
some of the most egregious hunting practices
and that's been in place ever since it
00:47:50
was until February two thousand and
seventeen and then the Alaska delegation
00:47:55
brought a C.R.A.
00:47:56
To change to the role of on the two thousand
and sixteen Fish and Wildlife Service
00:48:01
rule and they rolled it back so Congress
passed this administration signed
00:48:06
a bill that overturned the two thousand
and sixteen roll and seventy six million
00:48:11
acres of refuge lands in Alaska so it
means that people can shoot caribou from
00:48:16
motor boats for use airplanes to scout and
shoot grizzly bears using bait piles to
00:48:21
hunt grizzly bears killing black bear
mothers and their cubs while they're
00:48:25
hibernating in the den and some other
egregious practices and I understand there
00:48:29
was actually a recent incident that got
00:48:33
a lot of attention and was caught on video
that very shocking footage capturing the
00:48:37
poaching of
00:48:38
a mother Barron comes what happened here
so Alaska Department of Fish and Game in
00:48:43
the U.S.
00:48:43
Forest Service had put out remote cameras
on estar Island which is in the Prince
00:48:49
William Sound of Alaska they're trying to
discover why the black bear population
00:48:54
there was in decline Thanks captured
inadvertently to poachers who skied up to
00:49:00
a den and shot the mother basically
00:49:03
a point blank range and then her two newly
born Cubs began dreaming and it's just
00:49:09
it's really awful and then they shot the
Cubs and they immediately pulled the
00:49:14
mother out of the den and butchered her
and carried her away and then they came
00:49:18
back two days later and put
the bodies of the Cubs into
00:49:23
a bag and tampered with evidence cleaned
up bullets and things like that why why
00:49:28
would someone want to kill
00:49:29
a mother bear and such young cubs what
would be the reasoning behind that for
00:49:34
hunters you. No I think
00:49:35
a lot of hunters have this mistaken
idea that they're in competition with
00:49:40
carnivores for game animals such as MS and
deer and the science is just not there
00:49:46
you know there was two twenty year long
studies done in Alaska looking at gradation
00:49:52
effect and there's been other studies in
Alaska too that show that with this kind
00:49:56
of ecosystem in an arctic environment
there's only so much carrying capacity and
00:50:00
really predators are not the driving
factor in regulating herd sizes Now my
00:50:06
understanding the incident with the mother
bear in the Comes the people were found
00:50:11
and arrested and charged and pled guilty
to on lawfully killing and transporting
00:50:16
the Bears it's the law was overturned How
are they punished were Andrew no one ran
00:50:20
or did this deed it was on U.S.
00:50:23
Forest Service lands and so it wasn't
permitted where they did it the state even
00:50:28
prosecuted them for poaching but this kind
of agree just horrible behavior would
00:50:33
become the law of the land on our National
Park Service preserve in Alaska if the
00:50:38
two thousand and fifteen rule gets overturned
by this administration and so we're
00:50:44
asking folks to go to Humane Society dot
org and act on our actual or which will go
00:50:49
to the Department of Interior secretary
David Bernhard asking him not to overturn
00:50:55
the rule and protect our very iconic and
beloved black bears wolves and other
00:51:01
species on national preserves in Alaska
All right well that is Wendy Keefe over
00:51:06
native corn and we're protection manager
with the Humane Society of the United
00:51:10
States thank you for being with us.
00:51:20
Singer Norah Jones who became
00:51:22
a household name after her two thousand
to debut come away with me an album that
00:51:27
brought home five Grammy Awards. In jazz
sweethearts pretty much overnight and
00:51:34
now. Been wandering toward folk influences
and dabbling into electronic music and
00:51:41
returning to jazz and now she is
releasing a collection of singles in
00:51:46
a new album titled begin again it isn't
just limited to one musical genre the seven
00:51:51
song project harnesses
Jones's ability to tap into
00:51:55
a variety of musical streams maintaining
00:51:57
a mostly jazz feel. Norah Jones and
also far as acquired nine at Grammy
00:52:04
Awards and seven albums.
00:52:18
That you are listening to international
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00:52:22
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a Labor government show. Just
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
00:55:42
appeared to be in position for a fifth
term in power Wednesday as results from
00:55:46
a tight parliamentary election showed his
they cood party and right wing allies in
00:55:51
the best position to form
00:55:52
a coalition government with ninety seven
percent of the ballots counted Likud
00:55:57
studio even with the centrist blue and
white party led by former military chief
00:56:02
Benny Gantz both sides claim victory in the
hours after the voting ended Netanyahu
00:56:07
also faces an ongoing
criminal investigation U.S.
00:56:12
Attorney General William Barr returns to
Capitol Hill Wednesday they testified
00:56:17
before lawmakers
00:56:18
a day after he declined to discuss any
specifics of Special Counsel Robert Muller's
00:56:23
report on the Russia investigation we
will color code the. Exigence from the
00:56:29
report and we will provide explanatory
notes describing the basis.
00:56:37
For each redaction That's Bart talking
about the report he intends to send to
00:56:43
members of the Congress Barr is scheduled
to speak at the Senate Appropriations
00:56:48
subcommittee hearing on is departments
twenty twenty budget that was the topic
00:56:52
during Tuesday's session before the House
panel when Barr testified for the first
00:56:56
time since issuing
00:56:57
a summary of the special counsel's findings
bar faced criticism from Democrats who
00:57:03
suggested he had acted to shield President
Trump from the full weight of the probes
00:57:07
conclusions South Korean president Moon
joining hands for Washington Wednesday the
00:57:13
day before you meet with President Trump
Moon said previously he hoped his trip to
00:57:18
the U.S. Would revitalized all talks with
North Korea that collapse of the Trump
00:57:22
a North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and failed
to reach an agreement during that that
00:57:26
there were a summit in annoying
for more news join us at V.O.A.
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News dot com from here in
Washington this is V.O.A.
00:57:33
News the US Britain and Norway are demanding
that Sudanese authorities deliver
00:57:40
a credible plan for political transition
as deadly demonstrations seeking the
00:57:45
ouster of President Omar
al Bashir continued for
00:57:48
a fourth day be three Western
countries said that failing to offer
00:57:53
a transition plan risk causing greater
instability the Sudanese people are
00:57:58
demanding a transition to
00:58:00
a political system that is inclusive and
has greater legitimacy the European
00:58:06
Union will grant Britain another
delay to leave the E.U.
00:58:10
According to a draft statement
by the blocks national leaders.
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Thing and I promise we will do
something that was the F.B.I.
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Agent in charge Jennifer Moore the twenty
eight year old suspect arrested Monday
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before police believe he was about to head
to National Harbor where there is often
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a steady flow of but Hester in traffic
heavy rains and Brazil are blamed for
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killing at least ten people and leaving
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a trail of destruction in Rio de Janeiro
and here in Washington Brown reported.
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Good morning Africa will come to liberate
Africa from the Voice of America James
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but in Washington today it's Wednesday April
tenth ensure some of the stories we're
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covering all the jury has
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a new ninety day interim
president. Are all testing place
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in the Algerian capital Algiers to protest
Tuesday's column in session declaring
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speaker Abdul Qadeer Ben Salam interim
president of the nation that's corresponding
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Edel Urania in Cairo presidential politics
he. Fears grow in Guinea could not
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create a president condé might
change the Constitution to run for
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a third time in London thinking I gather
today to remember victims of the one nine
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hundred ninety four genocide and Zimbabwe
appeals for over six hundred million
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dollars in aid for cycling
to die and drug me. To
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Zimbabwe following Tacloban and I
cannot. Say To our great call the band
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aid you've been repeatable
and you. Vandalized
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a spokesman for Zimbabwe opposition leader
Nelson Chamisa and anticipation builds
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as the new airport terminal nears completion
in Nigeria for those there is a more
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a coming up on DAYBREAK Africa.
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The head of all Geary of House of Parliament
Hill can tell Ben Salah became interim
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head of state on Tuesday to temporarily
replace former president Abdel Aziz
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beautifully who resigned
earlier this month as
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a lawyer any reports from Cairo
constitutional requires that the head of the
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parliament becomes interim
head of state in case of
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a presidential vacancy. Large
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protests took place in front of the main
post office in the Algerian capital
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Algiers and many other towns and cities
to protest Tuesday's parliament session
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declaring speaker of the Ben Sala
interim president of the nation for
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a period of ninety days Arab news channels
showed live video of Algerian security
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forces using water cannons and tear gas
to try and disperse protesters in Algiers
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you have to see that you are sending
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a man away she didn't want any engine and
interview President Ben Sala addressed
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Parliament after the decision to declare
the presidency vacant and to apply article
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one zero eight of the Constitution granting
him interim presidential powers for
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ninety days the Constitution also requires
that new presidential elections be
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organized during that ninety day period
Ben Sala told legislators that he was
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required by national duty to take
on the heavy burden of steering
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a transition that will give the Algerian
people the ability to exercise its
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sovereignty and Saleh will have limited
powers and may not run for president
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himself the Islamist head of Algeria
is Justice and Development Party. Told
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journalists that he does not believe the
people will accept and Salam as interim
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president Shabnam Mahadevan
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a shot if you had him as yet the new union.
Means he says the people have taken to
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the streets to get rid of all elements of
the beautifully courageous and that some
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parties are making efforts to do an end run
around the demands of the people solely
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by and shy nane the head of a major Islamist
bloc in parliament told all Hora T.V.
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That the people reject the decision to
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a. Point out though Carter been solid as
interim head of state and that legislators
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should have chosen someone else to
replace former President Bill to flee.
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He says that the current crisis is both
political and constitutional So the
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response must be
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a mixture of both since the people do not
accept been solid as president he claims
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the Parliament should choose someone else
to fill the post of interim head of state
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. A former member of Algeria's
constitutional council however
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disagrees. He says in
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Article one zero eight of the Constitution
is clear once parliament declares the
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position of president to be vacant
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a speaker of the upper chamber automatically
becomes interim head of state Edward
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Uranian for V.O.A.
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News Cairo. Zimbabwe's government says
it would need to post six hundred thirty
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million dollars from local and international
Dillon us to help with the food
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imports following cycling and severe drought
to cycling killed about three hundred
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forty four people in Mozambique Malawi
and Zimbabwe information minister Monica
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Vanga told journalists on Tuesday in
Harare that both three hundred million of
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these six hundred and thirty million
dollars will go to all food aid. Is
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a spokesman for the bubble opposition leader
Nelson Chamisa he says Zimbabwe needs
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humanitarian assistance following cycle
but as such a it should be a minister
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a reputable international non-governmental
organization I think the need for
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assistance to Zimbabwe following cycling
and I cannot be overstated They certainly
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a growing need for infrastructure
see a provide a basis for
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a decent living. For the people I think the
numbers are fairly convective and it's
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basically that the government doesn't
have a proper department that can do
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a lot proper its analysis now if they had
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a great concept given what this government
has been doing with aid that's been
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coming through where they've been giving
it on their party line bases and some of
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it has actually been embezzled by
sending a party official that to such
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a MUST be given internationally
the pitcher bill and G.E.O.S.
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In order to make show that assistance gets
down to those who actually do need it
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rather than the powerful than the previous
party members does the opposition have
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evidence of talk to officials
misuse the money Oh yes it has been
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a lot of public outcry in the
country with footage of videos of
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a assistance being driven into that private
homes of millions does Oso being loaded
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on to sell a party that go to
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a set of being given to individuals as
being that if this is where aid was being
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given to people who did not come
from the areas affected so it's
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a double edged sword to give
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a directive of this government not to Mount
Pleasant I was I think should be given
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to a few to build international
organizations that have
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a tendency of making sure that the reasonable
fraction of fate I think about to set
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off aid that's given does get to those in
need that is out of the air for around
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about
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a quarter of it gets to those who need it
and even then it's not sufficient to some
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of it gets embezzled along the way part of
the six hundred million dollars that the
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government is looking for is to go to
most drought I was reading that the
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government has taken steps to pay
farmers increase the price for me
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this is no help the farmers will affect
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a bad drought but it's not going to do that
because what do you have in the Mabo to
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stop wearing the high point of flesh
and mold what they're simply doing by
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increasing the prices
banqueting the prices for
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a little the pipeline inflation level
at the. Some time you are having
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a crisis of basic food
stop spinning created for
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a society that has no money if
people are already living well below
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a dollar bill the majority A little people
are expected to the absorb whatever
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price increases are there
and the government has
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a low capacity to subsidize
these private so as
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a matter of fact it's very crazy the sort
of mathematical formula discovered is
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working it's not going to work if they
increase the prices the customers can afford
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it they just they were going to die of
hunger and that the family thankfully is not
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going to get anything because of the low
cost to actually buy those products
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because they are to reach So it's
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a catch twenty twenty five there is no
way out for this government until they
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realize that their main crisis is political
and economic they've got to resolve the
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social political and economic problems
of this country into the resolving the
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disputed election but some long ago become
president in August two thousand and
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eighty. And those disputes manful them
bubble opposition leader Nelson Chamisa he
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spoke with me in from the capital Harare
today is Wednesday at fourteenth and
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you're listening to daybreak Africa and
the Voice of America I'm James Bond in
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Washington they break Africa time forty
minutes past the hour opposition leaders in
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Guinea can agree and concerns the
president they will try to change the
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Constitution in order to run for
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a third turn after his current mandate
expires in twenty twenty he memorised watch
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Africa division researcher Jim Warmington
who has just returned from Guinea talks
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to wreckage track about the political
concerns in the country. There's been
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a lot of rumor and a lot
of fear among gives
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a position that condé will try to amend
the Constitution to be able to run for
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a third term and so this period that
we're in now I think it's is really
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a kind of the calm before the storm before
condé either announces his detention
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Open need to do that which will lead to
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a lot of street protests and likely
violence in Guinea or office
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a different character cation on
his future and so we're really in
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a holding pattern now seeing what can base
decision will be although as Maggie is
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supposed to be up in twenty twenty there's
no date for presidential elections next
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year at this point can know exactly and
in fact the National Assembly so get its
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parliament their mandate also ended or has
ended in in January and even in the case
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of those elections with with parliamentary
representatives now actually sitting
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beyond the end of their official mandate
even in that case we have no data
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politically to elections either and so
again it's this kind of weird limbo period
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where. I think everything is is really
dependent on what Condi decides to do next
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for his own future and what are the reasons
they're giving for the lays there the
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legislative elections Guinea has
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a long history of negotiation disagreement
between the opposition of the government
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as to how the modalities for the organization
of elections ranging from everything
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to what the electoral lists looks like
whether the electoral list of voters has
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been updated and and so who reflects the
most current demography of Guinea all the
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way through to the dates of the elections
and other aspects of how they're
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organized so I think that
it's often been used as a as
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a pretext by the government today elections
there's thoughts that people may even
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try to roll their legislative elections
into the presidential some twenty twenty
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but a Yes really it's just
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a question of my Been waiting and seeing
what the government does next and their
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biggest opponent who they are this moment
would be said oh yeah well I would assume
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and. If that is correct what are there
is there have been tensions between the
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community especially as Jallow is their
candidate you know what is that where the
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thir violence and oppression would be coming
from as well the security forces also
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are known to use excess environs Yeah I
mean undoubtedly there are strong as the
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tensions in Guinea
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a moment I think that on the other
hand it's important to say that also
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a lot of the violence that's been happening
is is purely political and not not
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always motivated by as they see it the
pattern that we've unfortunately seen in
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Guinea for many years now is that there are
often street protests organized by the
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opposition and they would say that's
because there are the kinds of legitimate
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institutions for example courts that
can adjudicate electoral disputes and
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therefore they have to be to do good on
the streets and then when that happens
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those protests are often not authorized
by the government and therefore the
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government seeks to break them up and
in breaking up the protests there's an
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inevitable confrontation between many
many young men from the opposition and
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security forces with some violence used
from both sides there are at least twelve
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people shot dead in process and twenty
eighteen. If Jim Want to turn Human Rights
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Watch researcher in the Africa division she
was speaking to reconstruct from Boston
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Massachusetts family in President Joyce
Banda says if there is an unknown who
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should be arrested for corruption it is
incumbent president Peter Erica she was
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reacting to remarks made Sunday
by President Erika during
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a campaign event that Mrs Banda could still
be arrested for the thirty two million
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dollars so-called cash Gates condo now
rocked our president say in twenty thirty
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Malawians will vote in presidential elections
on May twenty first this year axiom
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collaterally national publisher distract
trail of bandits opposition People's Party
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says President Mubarak does better because
former President Bandar rebuffed his
00:14:08
request to form an alliance ahead of the
May twenty first presidential election
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well the cabinet press conference which was
held some three days ago. Talking about
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the car States saying that there were. So
responding to that saying that she was
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not afraid of intimidation she was going
to be different because she didn't have
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very well when the country
was exposed. She invited.
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Seventy two people added to that
but if. You look. At the time she
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was upside in America and reported
to this country that is there any.
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Coarsening when the former president said
that the police must first arrest the
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current president for what she call
organized corruption where is the organized
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corruption almost every department.
Was distorted and it was
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reported in the media and. Has
been taken that have about fifty
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people. And. Which people. Storen not
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a natural has taken.
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On and that's what she was talking about
President Terry also said that the former
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president while she was abroad took steps
to discredit President Mubarak and his
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government is. The lack of seriousness in.
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Government buildings. There's
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a lot of planning the government. Never
taken an initiative pretty risky to get
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maybe to put the record straight.
But not agree that's been
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underfunded just because they are
afraid to expose people who are.
00:16:14
Really government money in SA going to vote
from the first to what degree does what
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is going on now have to
do with politics. Of say.
00:16:27
Forty six days. That.
You might be aware that
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contesting but after making an.
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Unsupported. Party and now.
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You want to support the. Action is
the national publisher secretary of
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President Joyce Banda People's Party
speaking with me from the Malawian capital
00:17:08
a long way diplomats representatives of
the Kenyan government and Broome London's
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living on Tuesday mock today international
day of reflection on the one nine
00:17:19
hundred ninety four Rwanda genocide at the
United Nations has. Quarters in Nairobi
00:17:23
more details from the Kenyan capital I
kissed eight hundred thousand people lost
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their lives during rundowns nine hundred
ninety four genocide sparked by
00:17:34
differences between the country's two main
ethnic groups the two days and the Hutus
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run as envoy to Kenya
Richard Meserve is that
00:17:42
a Tuesday say that round and genocide
happened because of historical injustices
00:17:47
measured out agonists one community put in
00:17:50
a side against didn't come out of
the blue but it was the outcome of
00:17:54
a long history of discrimination
and deliberate deny over rights of
00:18:00
a section of one society this is communication
and dehumanizing for was done in
00:18:06
order to provide justification for the
elimination of the government of the time
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organized and persuaded
00:18:14
a large section of London's to carry out
muscular neighbors The result was that
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over
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a million to see what killed myself there
said the aim of the commemoration is to
00:18:27
have the incidents I think in the
mind so front is so that to generate
00:18:32
a unit take buses that are stressed the
importance of fighting against it ethnic
00:18:37
and divisive ideologies noting that the
churches of these ideologies ought to be
00:18:43
called out withstanding in remembrance of
murdered brutally in one of the darkest
00:18:50
times in human history every year
starting from the seventh of April
00:18:55
a week is set aside to remember in Kenya
I wonder we call it we will come which
00:19:01
essentially means to remember
friendship a president or a man or
00:19:05
a macro and last week appointed
00:19:07
a commission to investigate claims that
France supported the Hutto mass murder as
00:19:12
of two says Brown in Tory Ireland is living
in Kenya said his father the blanks who
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are my dad during the one hundred day
killing spree. That left hundreds of
00:19:23
thousands dead and millions displaced
according to. A rundown has made
00:19:30
significant strides since one thousand
nine hundred four but that it will take
00:19:34
a long while for the country to completely
get freed of its make ideologies the
00:19:40
elimination of requirements to indicate
ethnic identities and identity cards and
00:19:45
registration of national examinations I
just some of the measures that have been
00:19:51
put in place to have created equal opportunities
for. Reporting for the DAYBREAK of
00:19:58
Flicka and Moreno jumble in a way Kenya
this July Liberia will integrate a new U.S.
00:20:04
Fifty million dollar terminal Roberson
International Airport it is the first modern
00:20:09
addition since the United States on May
first build the international airport
00:20:14
during the Second World War as Moses guzzle
reports expectations are high about the
00:20:19
potential benefits of the new terminal
Liberia begun constructing the new passenger
00:20:25
terminal at the international airport in
twenty seventeen now always glittering in
00:20:30
nears completion the two level building
includes passenger arrive when the batch of
00:20:35
facilities advance security immigration
system is office space is security
00:20:39
screening baggage had me in areas I'm
an artist so for the first time the new
00:20:45
terminal who's to jet will walk in bridges
one eight hundred ten minute gate with
00:20:49
aircraft making it possible for passengers
to enter and exit the aircraft I call
00:20:54
him to be sure I can managing director
of the Liberia airport authority the new
00:20:59
terminal shows the possibilities of
post-war Liberia the terminal was destroyed
00:21:05
we've gone almost two decades now and this
is the first morning term you know that
00:21:11
has been built this time it is showing
00:21:13
a positive face for Liberia knowing the
good things can happen and knowing that we
00:21:18
are living what is happening out there and
we want to bring good things back home.
00:21:23
Also said the new term you know we're
happy improve the standing of the airport
00:21:27
while at the same time providing job
opportunities from in Liberia is one of the
00:21:32
benefits is job creation you have moved
job opportunities for people especially
00:21:37
from in and around the community here
clearly revealed that more negotiate the
00:21:42
routes to Liberia because they believe the
new term you know host of passengers the
00:21:48
new airport is costing the Liberian government
fifty million that is fifty dollars
00:21:52
plus an additional tech
00:21:54
a million not just fifty dollars used in
twenty sixteen to rehabilitate the airport
00:21:58
runway in new administrative complaint
in new. Construction either
00:22:05
groundbreaking of the cost
structure of Recently
00:22:07
a joint venture company
Global or just a service is
00:22:10
a national interview this is that is
carried out the project general manager
00:22:16
explained the importance of the card was
sent to the new rabbits International
00:22:20
Airport establishing
00:22:21
a more oh yeah you know.
And it's very good very.
00:22:29
Very barrios and very Liberia's I excited
about the opportunities that will be
00:22:35
created from the new passenger tenure
if the. Flights come into this country.
00:22:43
Is that we move far in business is
following the laws into action with.
00:22:52
Our business our to the opening of the new
terminal or have to boys our business
00:22:57
because most of our board off before
terminal is now up to did the rabbit
00:23:02
International Airport has never
been and I tried to hop on
00:23:05
a minute traveling to one of
West Africa's air traffic center
00:23:10
a devastating forty years have
00:23:12
a war and post war economic challenges
made matters difficult for the airport to
00:23:16
make any prove me in the
aviation industry but with
00:23:19
a new sophisticated passenger
tending to a suitable. One way and
00:23:23
a better kind of facility
Liberia's hope. In
00:23:26
a new beginning for the Liberia if you
wish an industry. A news Monrovia
00:23:33
briefly before we leave you
00:23:34
a summary of Africa news the US Britain
and Norway demanded Tuesday the Sudanese
00:23:39
authorities deliver
00:23:41
a credible plan for political transition
as deadly deadly demonstrations seeking
00:23:45
the ouster of President
Bashir continue for
00:23:49
a fourth day on Tuesday activist behind
the protest said at least thirteen people
00:23:54
were killed in the capital hard to bring
in the death toll to twenty one since the
00:23:59
weekend including five soldiers police
used tear gas rubber bullets and files to
00:24:05
disperse the protesters and the
United Nations said Tuesday that
00:24:10
a national conference for Libya scheduled
for Sunday to bring warring parties
00:24:14
together is unlikely to go and that is it
for this Wednesday April tenth edition of
00:24:20
DAYBREAK Africa on behalf of the DAYBREAK
Africa I'm James bought in Washington
00:24:25
wishing you enough for
00:24:26
a very very good day.
Joining us Larry London.
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Today is Wednesday April tenth and this is
veal ways international edition and I'm
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Laurie London in Washington coming up on
precedent in elections that could change
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for Israel are too close
to call. That results
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we have to wait. For the
coming days in this area.
00:26:04
Next government. Army intervenes in Sudan's
protests morning it'll prevent chaos
00:26:10
also had advocates are pushing to
stop the Trump administration from
00:26:14
a no from overturning
00:26:15
a rule that allows aggressive wildlife Ponce
it's on today's international edition
00:26:20
. Exit polls from Israel's contested
election show the former chief of staff
00:26:27
Benny Gantz has won at least as many
seats as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
00:26:31
Netanyahu the question now
is whether God can form
00:26:35
a governing coalition Linda
Gradstein reports from V.O.A.
00:26:39
From Jerusalem. The big drama blue and
00:26:46
white is the largest party and it's
impossible to tell who will be the next prime
00:26:50
minister said the anchor on Channel thirteen
News giving challenger Benny Gantz his
00:26:56
blue and white party thirty seven seats
to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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Netanyahu is thirty four out of
00:27:03
a total of one hundred twenty seats other
exit polls have gone to head by one seat
00:27:08
or tied with Netanyahu these are only exit
polls and the results could change once
00:27:13
all the votes especially those of Israeli
soldiers are counted but if this election
00:27:19
was
00:27:19
a referendum on the ten yahoo who has served
for thirteen consecutive years it showed
00:27:24
the public is fed up and in ten Yahoo faces
several allegations of corruption and
00:27:30
could be indicted within the year.
Down supporters celebre. It at party
00:27:35
headquarters in Tel Aviv but their excitement
may have been premature even God says
00:27:41
most favorable polls show will be
easier for new ten Yahoo to form
00:27:45
a governing coalition in a tweet
the prime minister declared
00:27:49
a clear victory for the right wing bloc
and said he will start assembling one the
00:27:54
exit polls showed that several smaller
parties including one of the Arab parties
00:27:59
did not pass the minimum threshold once all
the votes are counted Israeli president
00:28:04
revenge Rivlin will consult with all the
party leaders and then ask either grants
00:28:09
or Natanya who to try to form
00:28:11
a governing coalition in the past the
head of the largest party has always been
00:28:16
given the first chance to form a
government Linda Gradstein for V.O.A.
00:28:20
News Jerusalem. Here's
some of the stories we are
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following at V.O.A.
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News dot com More than one hundred thousand
migrants have been encountered out the
00:28:33
U.S. Southern border in March the U.S.
00:28:36
Aid chief says Congo Ebola Congo's Ebola
outbreak is far from contained the
00:28:42
Algerian interim president promises free
elections and Iran labels the US The real
00:28:48
leader of world terrorism find expanded
coverage of these stories and. News dot com
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and on our V.O.A.
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Mobile app this is
international edition. Aid
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agencies are urging rival militias in
Libya to take all possible measures to
00:29:13
protect civilians as fighting for control
of the capital city Tripoli ask away it
00:29:19
sounds casualties mounts Lisa
shrine reports for V.O.A.
00:29:23
From Geneva in recent days health facilities
near Tripoli have reported forty seven
00:29:29
people killed and one hundred eighty one
wounded the World Health Organization says
00:29:34
. As nine civilians including two doctors
are among the dead it says one doctor
00:29:40
reportedly was killed while working as
part of a Field Ambulance servants W.H.O.
00:29:46
a Spokesman Tarik Zorra that says the
agency has documented dozens of attacks
00:29:52
against hells workers and facilities that
killed and injured thirty two health
00:29:57
workers and patients since two thousand
and eighteen he says targeting them is
00:30:02
against international humanitarian law to
respond to this spike in violence to the
00:30:08
health sector pre-print position supplies
us in order to respond quickly and
00:30:14
effectively emergency medical supplies
and trauma kits were prepositioning for
00:30:19
strategic sites the supplies are sufficient
to treat up to two hundred ten thousand
00:30:24
individuals for free months and to enable
to treatment of up to nine hundred
00:30:27
injuries he says Arvid says the W.H.O.
00:30:31
Fears
00:30:31
a prolonged conflict will drain the limited
available medical supplies on hand and
00:30:37
that a problem he notes is that the W.H.O.
00:30:40
Is short of cash he says the agency may
not be able to meet the medical needs of
00:30:45
the population if donors do not contribute
more generously to its forty three and
00:30:50
one half million dollar
appeal Meanwhile U.N.
00:30:54
High Commissioner for Human Rights Michel
botulin it is appealing to all parties to
00:30:59
the conflict to abide by their obligations
under international law her spokeswoman
00:31:05
Rabiner Shamdasani says the warring parties
must take all possible measures to
00:31:11
protect civilians and civilian infrastructure
including airports schools hospitals
00:31:17
and prisons commission
00:31:19
a stresses that the principles of distinction
proportionality and precaution must
00:31:24
at all times be fully respected and tension
in the targeting civilians or civilian
00:31:30
objects as well as indiscriminate attacks
may amount to war crime. Shamdasani says
00:31:37
the high commissioner is particularly
concerned about the welfare of thousands of
00:31:42
refugees of migrants in detention centers
near the combat zone in Tripoli she says
00:31:48
they are extremely vulnerable High Commissioner
Bagchi let urges authorities not to
00:31:53
abandon them the United Nations Monday
issued an urgent appeal for two hour truce
00:32:00
in the suburbs of Tripoli to evacuate
civilians Lisa shrine for V.O.A.
00:32:05
News Geneva a months of anti-government
protests in Sudan reached
00:32:10
a new stage over the weekend when
tens of thousands of people held
00:32:14
a sit in at army headquarters as the
protesters called for President Omar al Bashir
00:32:19
to step down troops on expectedly confronted
government security forces who were
00:32:24
trying to break up the protest at least
six people were killed in the Army is now
00:32:28
warning it could step in again. Mohi
Dean reports for me away from Khartoum
00:32:35
twenty three year also some on her family
have been marching against the government
00:32:40
of Brazil and almost all this year since
Brutus began in December. She says
00:32:47
he's going to prove this with the whole
family they won't come back until the
00:32:51
region falls but what is started
is a more sad that they turn to
00:32:54
a seething ad military headquarters
thousands refused to go back home putting
00:33:02
these protesters to fuse to stop
protesting kill al Bashir or steps down.
00:33:09
They said they have been protesting for
four months December lines they have only
00:33:14
one demand the region must fall down
they won't go backward won't compromise
00:33:19
everyone will sit in front of military
headquarters until the region totally falls
00:33:24
down President Bashir on Friday night had
called for dialogue with these opponents
00:33:29
elections Ses Sudan's government spokesman
Husain is my email are the only possible
00:33:34
. Before change. Hasn't say that
the door to dialogue will be
00:33:41
closed the government's mind will still
be open to deal with anything in the
00:33:45
political arena it hands will be open for
anyone even those who refuse dialogue who
00:33:52
raise their demand to bring down the
government instead what on Saturday the
00:33:56
anniversary of nine hundred eighty five
coupe in Sudan the poet is Kelly as
00:34:01
security forces moved in to clear protests
is so these troops instead they in
00:34:05
confronting and clashing with security
personnel loud sounds of gunfire we're
00:34:09
hearing there on the military
headquarters so that's indeed
00:34:12
a minister said Monday that at least six
people were killed in that we can put this
00:34:17
in Khartoum and two thousand five hundred
others arrested analysts say the put is
00:34:22
over food and fuel shortages have is no
walled into why this raid anger at all
00:34:27
aspects of government. This
is the political analyst. He
00:34:34
said The street protests all result
of accumulations lasting for
00:34:37
a long time the inaccessible powers
structure and defensive approach of the
00:34:42
government eventually it resulted in
failure. Late on Mondays to dance defense
00:34:48
minister issued
00:34:49
a statement through state media it said the
military understands the reason for the
00:34:53
recent demonstrations but will not allow
the country to fall into CA is no bomb he
00:34:59
Dean for viewing use cult US Attorney
General William Barr on Tuesday declined to
00:35:05
discuss with lawmakers any specifics of
Special Counsel Robert Muller's report on
00:35:10
the Russian investigators but said he
expects to issue every day acted version of
00:35:14
the document within
00:35:15
a week testifying on Capitol Hill
for the first time since issuing
00:35:19
a summary of the special counsel's
findings Barr faced intense criticism from
00:35:23
Democrats who suggested the attorney general
had acted to shield President Donald
00:35:28
Trump from the full weight of the probes
conclusions House Appropriations Committee
00:35:33
chairperson need allowing so. Bar summary
is more suspicious than impressive and
00:35:38
urged him to bring transparency to this
process as soon as possible late last month
00:35:43
two days after receiving Muller's report
Barr advised lawmakers that the special
00:35:48
counsel had not uncovered collusion between
the Trump campaign and Russia to sway
00:35:52
the twenty six thousand election but was
neutral on whether the president had
00:35:56
obstructed American justice news reports
have said that some members of Miller's
00:36:00
team alleged bar summary glossed over
damaging information about Trump Democrats
00:36:07
and both houses of Congress have demanded
access to the complete report and idea
00:36:12
that bar has so far appeared to dismiss
Joining us to talk more about this is
00:36:16
former federal prosecutor
Kenneth McCallion
00:36:18
a constitutional law expert who worked on
Trump Russia corruption cases what do you
00:36:23
make of all this it's really
unfortunate. Or have.
00:36:30
Parts gone out. Summarized in page the
letter what he believes are the finding
00:36:37
of the record but there are many including
me who highly suspect that he put
00:36:43
a tremendous amount of political spin in
his four page letter we've never seen them
00:36:48
our report I think has
00:36:50
a lot of basis for believing our report
itself he tells them that Exter and
00:36:57
the analysis by all are was designed to
have the Congress or the public to form
00:37:03
their own opinions particularly on the issue
of obstruction of justice on the issue
00:37:07
of of collusion we haven't seen them over
report but according to the bar Well it
00:37:12
took an extremely restricted view of
what collusion consists of and really
00:37:19
the conclusion or the definition of collusion
really really drove their conclusion
00:37:25
there was collusion specifically what I
in the bars letter he says clues in was
00:37:32
nominally. Really. Any activity
aiding and abetting by Trump
00:37:39
campaign Clinton with the with the Russian
hackers with the agency that was doing
00:37:45
the deal in the examination that was
really never part of the allegations it's
00:37:51
never been alleged that term campaign
actively worked with the hackers the issue
00:37:57
was really did Tron campaign solicit from
the Russians the benefit of that hacking
00:38:04
mainly the. Hacked e-mails on Hillary
Clinton so we haven't seen the mole or Igor
00:38:10
yet but it seems that Muller by taking up
certainly was the issue of what collusion
00:38:17
consisted of ignore
00:38:19
a lot of the critical evidence of the
interaction between the Trentino the Russians
00:38:25
we don't really know what he looked at or
what he found that may have been maybe
00:38:29
just below the legal level of criminality
or we don't know because we haven't seen
00:38:35
it and apparently the law does provide
for certain congressional committees
00:38:39
particularly the House Intelligence
Committee to be able to see the on redacted
00:38:44
report apparently they get classified
information all the time so my understanding
00:38:48
is this is the first sort of special counsel
report that hasn't been fully released
00:38:51
to Congress in this type of situation yes
certainly the Department of Justice bar
00:38:57
has has all kinds of based on precedent
there's all kinds of ways that any
00:39:02
confidential information can be restricted
it could be released to the committee
00:39:08
members were certain restrictions on public
dissemination but you're right it's an
00:39:13
aggression Committee have
00:39:14
a right to see the full report just as far
as read the full report because under
00:39:20
article one they have a responsibility
of oversight in the geisha and they have
00:39:26
a right to the full report what about the
grand jury issues he says they will not
00:39:31
get he will not release grand jury testimony
by. Standing From everything I've
00:39:36
heard is that it wouldn't take much for him
to get for the attorney general to get
00:39:40
a judge to actually release them to
Congress not necessarily the public but at
00:39:44
least Congress so that they can
investigate and you know there's
00:39:47
a lot of talk about how people think maybe
Mahler was really intending for Congress
00:39:51
to to make
00:39:52
a decision about obstruction anyway so
would it make sense for for Congress to be
00:39:57
able to get their hands on the grand jury
testimony Oh absolutely bar well over
00:40:02
twenty four hours create
get authorization from
00:40:05
a federal judge really that congressional
committee on public need for and it's
00:40:11
a wing process. And public need. At least
00:40:18
for a valuation And then
surely without necessarily
00:40:23
a really public but at least elected
representatives in Congress with full
00:40:28
opportunity to review the entirety of the
court it would be unfortunate that they
00:40:34
would have the first impeachment proceedings
in order to keep it to get the full
00:40:39
military court right if necessary. To
former federal prosecutor Kenneth Macallan
00:40:46
a constitutional law expert who worked on
Trump Russia corruption cases the live
00:40:51
stream video of the Christ Church New
Zealand mosque shooting last month
00:40:55
highlighted social media companies continuing
struggle to police extremist content
00:41:00
on their platforms Facebook and
Google representatives told U.S.
00:41:05
Lawmakers Tuesday the effort to balance
free speech with moderation of white
00:41:09
supremacist content is ongoing via ways
Congressional Correspondent Catherine
00:41:15
Jepson has more from Capitol
Hill. A church synagogue and
00:41:21
a mosque attacks inspired by with the promise
is the ideology fostered. In the age
00:41:28
of instant communication with worldwide
reach white nationalist groups target
00:41:32
communities of color and religious minorities
you see. JLE media platforms since
00:41:36
two thousand and seven right wing extremist
attacks have taken place across the
00:41:41
nation but the problem is global and the
live stream of the New Zealand shooting
00:41:46
posed
00:41:47
a massive challenge actually proving one
point two million and find three hundred
00:41:51
thousand additional uploads about video
within the first twenty four hours and that
00:41:55
are very forceful in swift response the
decision to remove videos of mass shootings
00:42:00
is clearcut policing the free speech of
more than two billion people is far more
00:42:06
complex hate speech because it often rely
as unspoken rather than visual cues is
00:42:12
sometimes harder to detect than some forms
of branding terrorist propaganda it's
00:42:16
intensely context Pacific and it can be
contentious as there is often disagreement
00:42:21
on what could be considered political
speech. On the opposite end over aggressive
00:42:26
enforcement can also inadvertently file
into boys that are using the platform to
00:42:30
make them heard make themselves heard
on these important news is social media
00:42:33
companies are protected by law from liability
for content posted on their platforms
00:42:39
this is
00:42:39
a piece of legislation that really allows
the Internet as we understand it to exist
00:42:43
and fiddling with it on the edges could I
think have really bad implications for
00:42:49
customers who enjoy using these services
because what will happen is if they amend
00:42:54
legislation to actually make Facebook Twitter
You Tube liable for extremist content
00:42:59
say you run the risk of. Overreaction
and Facebook and Twitter will be
00:43:06
very they'll both shut down tons and tons
and tons of channels and content white
00:43:10
supremacy has never been allowed on Facebook
but recently the company expanded the
00:43:14
scope of the ban redirecting users to
00:43:17
a nonprofit that helps people leave hate
groups extend their policy to include
00:43:21
a ban on all praise support and
representation of white nationalism and white
00:43:26
separatism you see these are ya Jesus being
extra quickly linked to supremacy with
00:43:32
intensive violence more generally president.
Rhetoric about immigrants and his
00:43:36
reaction in the aftermath of the deadly two
thousand and seventeen Charlottesville
00:43:40
rally encourages hate speech they Democrats
the president denies this and the
00:43:45
danger of white supremacy that was acknowledged
just last week by the nation's top
00:43:51
law enforcement official says that it's
00:43:53
a persistent provision of threat is
just illustrates part of the problem
00:43:58
a problem so immediate that racist content
flooding the youtube live stream of the
00:44:03
hearing shot the comments section down
great Catherine just said it's below News
00:44:09
Capitol Hill and you're listening to
international edition on the way.
00:44:19
Thanks in
00:44:20
a lobby ready to beat the African people
that the Beatles call the translation it's
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called all languages and each of the.
Places we're going to keep this thing and I
00:44:31
just asked to get the fricken beat on the
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like you did with David bang.
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is international edition
continues the U.S.
00:45:25
Department of Interior
is working to finalize
00:45:28
a rule that would dismantle Obama era
protections that prohibit killing mother
00:45:32
bears on their cubs at the den and other
high. Doing methods on the National Park
00:45:37
Service preserve lands in Alaska that are
deemed excessively cruel in the light of
00:45:43
the upcoming Trump administration actions
the Humane Society of the United States
00:45:47
is releasing video footage of a father and
son caught on camera illegally killing
00:45:52
a hibernating mother blackberrying her two
comes the organization says it released
00:45:56
the video to show what they call cruelty
involved in an action that could soon be
00:46:02
permitted on National Preserve lands in
Alaska Joining us to discuss Wendy keep
00:46:07
over native carnivore protection manager
with the Humane Society's Wildlife
00:46:11
Department first off can you just give us
00:46:13
a little background on this law or roll
it around nine hundred ninety the Alaska
00:46:19
legislature passed
00:46:21
a law it would privilege hunter over all
other uses for wildlife on lands in
00:46:28
Alaska and the Alaska Department of Fish
and Game and its commission started to
00:46:34
push these laws onto federal public
lands in Alaska including on
00:46:41
seventy six million acres of National
Wildlife Refuge lands and over twenty million
00:46:46
acres of National Park Service lands
and preserves and so during the Obama
00:46:51
administration first the
Park Service issued
00:46:54
a rule to protect against extreme an
egregious hunting practices on national
00:46:59
preserves in Alaska and the rule ban
things like killing you know wolves and
00:47:04
coyote's den sites in the early summer when
you know the whole family is there kind
00:47:09
of raising and provisioning for their pups
and they're extremely vulnerable using
00:47:14
bait to attract brown bears and killing
the using artificial light to kill black
00:47:19
bears and their mothers while their heart
hibernating in the den and shooting
00:47:22
vulnerable swimming elves and things like
that my understanding is though that when
00:47:27
Obama took office he changed some of that
in two thousand and fifteen the National
00:47:32
Park Service issued
00:47:33
a rule for land. National preserved in
Alaska and then in two thousand and sixteen
00:47:38
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued
00:47:40
a rule for National Wildlife Refuge in
Alaska and what these rules did was banned
00:47:45
some of the most egregious hunting practices
and that's been in place ever since it
00:47:50
was until February two thousand and
seventeen and then the Alaska delegation
00:47:55
brought a C.R.A.
00:47:56
To change to the role of on the two thousand
and sixteen Fish and Wildlife Service
00:48:01
rule and they rolled it back so Congress
passed this administration signed
00:48:06
a bill that overturned the two thousand
and sixteen roll and seventy six million
00:48:11
acres of refuge lands in Alaska so it
means that people can shoot caribou from
00:48:16
motor boats for use airplanes to scout and
shoot grizzly bears using bait piles to
00:48:21
hunt grizzly bears killing black bear
mothers and their cubs while they're
00:48:25
hibernating in the den and some other
egregious practices and I understand there
00:48:29
was actually a recent incident that got
00:48:33
a lot of attention and was caught on video
that very shocking footage capturing the
00:48:37
poaching of
00:48:38
a mother Barron comes what happened here
so Alaska Department of Fish and Game in
00:48:43
the U.S.
00:48:43
Forest Service had put out remote cameras
on estar Island which is in the Prince
00:48:49
William Sound of Alaska they're trying to
discover why the black bear population
00:48:54
there was in decline Thanks captured
inadvertently to poachers who skied up to
00:49:00
a den and shot the mother basically
00:49:03
a point blank range and then her two newly
born Cubs began dreaming and it's just
00:49:09
it's really awful and then they shot the
Cubs and they immediately pulled the
00:49:14
mother out of the den and butchered her
and carried her away and then they came
00:49:18
back two days later and put
the bodies of the Cubs into
00:49:23
a bag and tampered with evidence cleaned
up bullets and things like that why why
00:49:28
would someone want to kill
00:49:29
a mother bear and such young cubs what
would be the reasoning behind that for
00:49:34
hunters you. No I think
00:49:35
a lot of hunters have this mistaken
idea that they're in competition with
00:49:40
carnivores for game animals such as MS and
deer and the science is just not there
00:49:46
you know there was two twenty year long
studies done in Alaska looking at gradation
00:49:52
effect and there's been other studies in
Alaska too that show that with this kind
00:49:56
of ecosystem in an arctic environment
there's only so much carrying capacity and
00:50:00
really predators are not the driving
factor in regulating herd sizes Now my
00:50:06
understanding the incident with the mother
bear in the Comes the people were found
00:50:11
and arrested and charged and pled guilty
to on lawfully killing and transporting
00:50:16
the Bears it's the law was overturned How
are they punished were Andrew no one ran
00:50:20
or did this deed it was on U.S.
00:50:23
Forest Service lands and so it wasn't
permitted where they did it the state even
00:50:28
prosecuted them for poaching but this kind
of agree just horrible behavior would
00:50:33
become the law of the land on our National
Park Service preserve in Alaska if the
00:50:38
two thousand and fifteen rule gets overturned
by this administration and so we're
00:50:44
asking folks to go to Humane Society dot
org and act on our actual or which will go
00:50:49
to the Department of Interior secretary
David Bernhard asking him not to overturn
00:50:55
the rule and protect our very iconic and
beloved black bears wolves and other
00:51:01
species on national preserves in Alaska
All right well that is Wendy Keefe over
00:51:06
native corn and we're protection manager
with the Humane Society of the United
00:51:10
States thank you for being with us.
00:51:20
Singer Norah Jones who became
00:51:22
a household name after her two thousand
to debut come away with me an album that
00:51:27
brought home five Grammy Awards. In jazz
sweethearts pretty much overnight and
00:51:34
now. Been wandering toward folk influences
and dabbling into electronic music and
00:51:41
returning to jazz and now she is
releasing a collection of singles in
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a new album titled begin again it isn't
just limited to one musical genre the seven
00:51:51
song project harnesses
Jones's ability to tap into
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a variety of musical streams maintaining
00:51:57
a mostly jazz feel. Norah Jones and
also far as acquired nine at Grammy
00:52:04
Awards and seven albums.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
00:55:42
appeared to be in position for a fifth
term in power Wednesday as results from
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a tight parliamentary election showed his
they cood party and right wing allies in
00:55:51
the best position to form
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a coalition government with ninety seven
percent of the ballots counted Likud
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studio even with the centrist blue and
white party led by former military chief
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Benny Gantz both sides claim victory in the
hours after the voting ended Netanyahu
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also faces an ongoing
criminal investigation U.S.
00:56:12
Attorney General William Barr returns to
Capitol Hill Wednesday they testified
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before lawmakers
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a day after he declined to discuss any
specifics of Special Counsel Robert Muller's
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report on the Russia investigation we
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report and we will provide explanatory
notes describing the basis.
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For each redaction That's Bart talking
about the report he intends to send to
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members of the Congress Barr is scheduled
to speak at the Senate Appropriations
00:56:48
subcommittee hearing on is departments
twenty twenty budget that was the topic
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during Tuesday's session before the House
panel when Barr testified for the first
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time since issuing
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a summary of the special counsel's findings
bar faced criticism from Democrats who
00:57:03
suggested he had acted to shield President
Trump from the full weight of the probes
00:57:07
conclusions South Korean president Moon
joining hands for Washington Wednesday the
00:57:13
day before you meet with President Trump
Moon said previously he hoped his trip to
00:57:18
the U.S. Would revitalized all talks with
North Korea that collapse of the Trump
00:57:22
a North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and failed
to reach an agreement during that that
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there were a summit in annoying
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News the US Britain and Norway are demanding
that Sudanese authorities deliver
00:57:40
a credible plan for political transition
as deadly demonstrations seeking the
00:57:45
ouster of President Omar
al Bashir continued for
00:57:48
a fourth day be three Western
countries said that failing to offer
00:57:53
a transition plan risk causing greater
instability the Sudanese people are
00:57:58
demanding a transition to
00:58:00
a political system that is inclusive and
has greater legitimacy the European
00:58:06
Union will grant Britain another
delay to leave the E.U.
00:58:10
According to a draft statement
by the blocks national leaders.
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